I'm not quite ready to start writing again yet, but, just to get the
conversation and the juices flowing again, here's the 2008 non-conference
schedule for games between teams that finished in the top 50 in ISR last
year. One obvious result of the new scheduling restrictions is the
growth of the four-game series -- I count at least a half-dozen here.
Just looking at the number of series here, there are actually more than
were scheduled last year, but I haven't counted to see if that encompasses
more or fewer games -- Ockham's Razor would argue for more games, if
anything, because there are fewer travel days available.

2/22 Oregon State vs Vanderbilt
2/22,24 Kansas State at California
2/22-24 Cal State Fullerton at Texas Christian
2/22-24 Creighton at Washington State
2/22-24 East Carolina at South Carolina
2/22-24 Minnesota at Mississippi
2/22-24 Oklahoma at UCLA
2/22-24 Rice at Long Beach State
2/22-24 (4) Gonzaga at Oklahoma State
2/22-24 (4) Nebraska at Stanford
2/22-25 Washington at UC Riverside
2/23 Louisiana-Lafayette vs Oral Roberts
2/23 Vanderbilt at Arizona State
2/26 San Diego at Long Beach State
2/26 UC Riverside at Pepperdine
2/27 Southern California at UC Irvine
2/28-3/1 Arizona State vs Michigan
2/29 Cal Poly at San Diego
2/29 California vs Missouri
2/29 Louisville vs North Carolina State
2/29 Oklahoma vs Rice
2/29 Texas Christian at Minnesota
2/29 Wichita State at Long Beach State
2/29,3/2 Southern Mississippi at Louisiana-Lafayette
2/29-3/2 Cal State Fullerton at Stanford
2/29-3/2 UC Riverside at Nebraska
3/1 Arkansas at Texas A&M
3/1 Clemson at South Carolina
3/1 Missouri at San Diego
3/1 Pepperdine vs Texas Christian
3/1 Rice vs Texas
3/1-2 Wichita State at Long Beach State
3/2 Cal Poly vs Missouri
3/2 California at San Diego
3/2 Pepperdine at Minnesota
3/2 South Carolina at Clemson
3/2 Western Carolina at Coastal Carolina
3/4 San Diego at UC Irvine
3/4 Southern California at Pepperdine
3/4 Southern Mississippi at Mississippi
3/4 UCLA at Cal State Fullerton
3/5 Cal State Fullerton at UCLA
3/5 North Carolina-Charlotte at South Carolina
3/5 Pepperdine at Southern California
3/7 Creighton vs Western Carolina
3/7 Oklahoma State at San Diego
3/7-9 Baylor at Mississippi State
3/7-9 Cal Poly at Washington
3/7-9 Mississippi at Texas Christian
3/7-9 Southern Mississippi at Cal State Fullerton
3/7-9 Stanford at Texas
3/8 California at Minnesota
3/8 Michigan at East Carolina
3/8 Oregon State vs San Diego
3/8 Western Carolina at Rice
3/9 Creighton at Rice
3/11 Cal State Fullerton at San Diego
3/11 Coastal Carolina at North Carolina
3/11 Pepperdine at UCLA
3/11 Texas at Rice
3/11 Washington State at Kansas State
3/11-12 Arkansas at Arizona State
3/11-12 Baylor at Oral Roberts
3/11-12 Western Carolina at Vanderbilt
3/12 UC Irvine at Southern California
3/12 Washington State at San Diego
3/12 Washington State at Wichita State
3/13-15 UCLA at Cal Poly
3/14,16 Southern California at Long Beach State
3/14-16 Cal State Fullerton at Arizona
3/14-16 Oral Roberts at Pepperdine
3/14-16 Texas Christian at Wichita State
3/14-16 Washington State at Oklahoma
3/15 Long Beach State at Southern California
3/15-16 Michigan at Coastal Carolina
3/18 Cal State Fullerton at Pepperdine
3/18 Coastal Carolina at Clemson
3/18 Louisville at Vanderbilt
3/18 Wichita State at Oral Roberts
3/18-19 Arkansas at Nebraska
3/19 Louisiana-Lafayette at Rice
3/20-22 Pepperdine at Oregon State
3/21 Long Beach State at UCLA
3/22 (2) UCLA at Long Beach State
3/23 UC Irvine at Arizona State
3/24 Oral Roberts at Texas
3/24-25 Missouri at Minnesota
3/25 Gonzaga at Washington State
3/25 Long Beach State at Pepperdine
3/25 Mississippi at Southern Mississippi
3/25 San Diego at Cal State Fullerton
3/25-26 Arizona at Oklahoma State
3/26 Creighton at Kansas State
3/28-30 Long Beach State at California
3/31 Long Beach State at Stanford
4/1 Baylor at Texas Christian
4/1 Nebraska at Creighton
4/1 North Carolina State at East Carolina
4/1 Rice at Texas
4/1 UC Riverside at Southern California
4/2 Oral Roberts at Wichita State
4/2 Southern California at San Diego
4/8 Cal Poly at Pepperdine
4/8 Cal State Fullerton at Southern California
4/8 Oral Roberts at Arkansas
4/8 San Diego at UC Riverside
4/8 Texas Christian at Baylor
4/8 UC Irvine at UCLA
4/8 Washington State at Gonzaga
4/8 Western Carolina at South Carolina
4/8 Wichita State at Kansas State
4/9 Clemson at South Carolina
4/9 Coastal Carolina at North Carolina State
4/9 Oklahoma at Wichita State
4/9 UC Riverside at San Diego
4/11-13 UC Riverside at UCLA
4/14-15 Washington at Gonzaga
4/15 Arkansas at Oral Roberts
4/15 Coastal Carolina at Virginia
4/15 East Carolina at North Carolina State
4/15 Kansas State at Creighton
4/15 Oklahoma at Texas Christian
4/15 Pepperdine at Long Beach State
4/15 Rice at Texas A&M
4/15 Southern California at Cal State Fullerton
4/15 UC Irvine at San Diego
4/15 Western Carolina at Clemson
4/15 Wichita State at Nebraska
4/16 North Carolina-Charlotte at North Carolina
4/16 South Carolina at Clemson
4/22 Cal Poly at California
4/22 Clemson at Western Carolina
4/22 Creighton at Nebraska
4/22 Gonzaga at Washington State
4/22 Long Beach State at San Diego
4/22 North Carolina at North Carolina-Charlotte
4/22 Texas Christian at Oklahoma
4/22-23 Arizona State at Cal State Fullerton
4/22-23 Mississippi State at Southern Mississippi
4/22-23 UC Irvine at Kansas State
4/23 Wichita State at Oklahoma State
4/29 Kansas State at Wichita State
4/29 San Diego at Cal State Fullerton
4/29 Southern California at Cal Poly
4/29 Texas A&M at Texas Christian
4/29 UCLA at Pepperdine
4/29-30 Oregon State at Gonzaga
4/30 California at Cal Poly
4/30 Wichita State at Oklahoma
5/2-4 Louisiana-Lafayette at Nebraska
5/6 Cal Poly at Southern California
5/6 Pepperdine at Cal State Fullerton
5/6 San Diego at UCLA
5/6-7 Arizona State at Kansas State
5/7 Creighton at Missouri
5/7 Oklahoma State at Rice
5/13 Nebraska at Creighton
5/13 Oral Roberts at Wichita State
5/13 Pepperdine at Cal Poly
5/13 UCLA at UC Irvine
5/13 Washington State at Gonzaga
5/14 Southern California at UC Riverside
5/19 Oregon State at Long Beach State
5/20 Pepperdine at UC Riverside
5/20 UCLA at Cal State Fullerton

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